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  • What Did Jesus Look Like?

    by Professor Joan E. Taylor ...
    Jesus Christ is arguably the most famous man who ever lived. His image adorns countless churches, icons, and paintings. He is the subject of millions of statues, sculptures, devotional objects and works of art. Everyone can conjure an image of Jesus: usually as a handsome, white man with flowing locks and pristine linen robes.But what did Jesus really look like? Is our popular image of Jesus ... Read more

    $38.89 USD

  • Patterns of Women's Leadership in Early Christianity

    Edited by Joan E. Taylor, Ilaria L. E. Ramelli ...
    This authoritative collection brings together the latest thinking on women's leadership in early Christianity. Patterns of Women's Leadership in Early Christianity considers the evidence for ways in which women exercised leadership in churches from the 1st to the 9th centuries CE. This rich and diverse volume breaks new ground in the study of women in early Christianity. This is not about working ... Read more

    $108.99 USD

  • Jesus and Brian

    Exploring the Historical Jesus and his Times via Monty Python's Life of Brian

    Edited by Professor Joan E. Taylor ...
    Monty Python's Life of Brian film is known for its brilliant satirical humour. Less well known is that the film contains references to what was, at the time of its release, cutting edge biblical scholarship and Life of Jesus research. This research, founded on the acceptance of the Historical Jesus as a Jew who needs to be understood within the context of his time, is implicitly referenced through ... Read more

    $30.99 USD

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    A Failed Tradition

    by Garry Wills ...
    New York Times–bestselling author Garry Wills provides a provocative analysis of the theological and historical basis for the priesthoodIn a riveting and provocative tour de force from the author of What Jesus Meant, Pulitzer Prize winner Garry Wills poses the challenging question: Why did the priesthood develop in a religion that began without it and, indeed, was opposed to it? Why Priests? ... Read more

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  • Catholic Dictionary

    An Abridged and Updated Edition of Modern Catholic Dictionary

    by John Hardon ...
    Pocket Catholic Dictionary is a comprehensive, one-volume reference work containing definitions and explanations of the key terms of Catholicism. Father Hardon has carefully selected some 2,000 entries from his original master tome of over 5,000 terms that comprise Modern Catholic Dictionary. Furthermore, this pocket edition reflects changes in the newly revised Code of Canon Law.Here are clear ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • The Patient Ferment of the Early Church

    The Improbable Rise of Christianity in the Roman Empire

    by Alan Kreider ...
    How and why did the early church grow in the first four hundred years despite disincentives, harassment, and occasional persecution? In this unique historical study, veteran scholar Alan Kreider delivers the fruit of a lifetime of study as he tells the amazing story of the spread of Christianity in the Roman Empire. Challenging traditional understandings, Kreider contends the church grew because ... Read more

    $23.79 USD

  • Rediscovering the Church Fathers

    Who They Were and How They Shaped the Church

    by Michael A. G. Haykin ...
    While the church today looks quite different than it did two thousand years ago, Christians share the same faith with the church fathers. Although separated by time and culture, we have much to learn from their lives and teaching.This book is an organized and convenient introduction to how to read the church fathers from AD 100 to 500. Michael Haykin surveys the lives and teachings of seven of the ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • Will Many Be Saved?

    What Vatican II Actually Teaches and Its Implications for the New Evangelization

    by Ralph P. Martin ...
    The question of whether and how people who have not had the chance to hear the gospel can be saved goes back to the beginnings of Christian reflection. It has also become a much-debated topic in current theology. In Will Many Be Saved? Ralph Martin focuses primarily on the history of debate and the development of responses to this question within the Roman Catholic Church, but much of Martin's ... Read more

    $26.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Christians and Images: Early Christian Attitudes toward Images

    by Steven Bigham ...
    This book aims at combating the Hostility Theory which claims that the Christians in the pagan Roman Empire had no images and rejected them as idolatrous. Did the early Christians, during the first three centuries, 33–313, have images in their churches or places of worship and homes? If they did not, was that because they thought that all images were idols or close to being idols? Did they think ... Read more

    $4.95 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Pilgrimage of Egeria

    A New Translation of the Itinerarium Egeriae with Introduction and Commentary

    by Anne McGowan, Paul F. Bradshaw ...
    This new version of the late fourth-century diary of journeys in and around the Holy Land known as the Itinerarium Egeriae provides a more literal translation of the Latin text than earlier English renderings, with the aim of revealing more of the female traveler’s personality. The substantial introduction to the book covers both early pilgrimage as a whole, especially travel by women, and the ... Read more

    $20.19 USD

  • The Oxford History of Christian Worship

    Edited by Geoffrey Wainwright, Karen B. Westerfield Tucker ...
    The Oxford History of Christian Worship is a comprehensive and authoritative history of the origins and development of Christian worship to the present day. Backed by an international roster of experts as contributors, this new book will examine the liturgical traditions of Orthodox, Catholic, and Protestant, and Pentecostal traditions throughout history and across the world. With 240 photographs ... Read more

    $61.19 USD

  • An Introduction to the Medieval Bible

    by Frans van Liere ...
    Series series Introduction to Religion
    The Middle Ages spanned the period between two watersheds in the history of the biblical text: Jerome's Latin translation c.405 and Gutenberg's first printed version in 1455. The Bible was arguably the most influential book during this time, affecting spiritual and intellectual life, popular devotion, theology, political structures, art, and architecture. In an account that is sensitive to the ... Read more

    $36.09 USD